> So I installed a system where / and /boot are not on raid and low and behold > grub seemed to successfully install the boot sector and I could boot > the disks.
Making the /boot partition on a RAID is generally not possible with GRUB (don't know about LILO). It supposedly can be done if the RAID is just an MD mirror but I remember there being some caveats. So I wouldn't be surprised if the installer doesn't get it right. > However I now hit the next problem = the installer somehow thought my drives > were /dev/sde and /dev/sdf (rather than /dev/sda and /dev/sdb that they > originally were) so created /etc/fstab, and the grub menu.lst entries > refering to these drives. However when booting the new system it expected > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and so root failed to mount. I had to go back into > the installer and manually edit files in the target system to make it work. My /etc/fstab doesn't use the /dev/sd* names: all my partitions are either under LVM (and hence have the names I chose to give them) or are labelled so that I can use /dev/disk/by-label/*. In Grub I always use "hd0". Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]